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    Alberta placed on credit watch by Moody's

    Alberta once boasted the best credit rating in Canada has just been put on a credit watch by the bond rating industry. Paige MacPherson from the Alberta chapter of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joined me to talk about this disastrous development. It's no wonder Moody's is issuing...
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    Do as progresive hipsters say, not as they do.

    SOP for just about any cause these neo-hippie whiners dredge up. Pemberton Music Festival visitors left B.C. campground covered in garbage The Pemberton Music Festival is a massive party in B.C.'s Coast Mountains — a party that also apparently leaves one massive, stinking mess. As...
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    Man wrongly accused of rape finally released from prison

    Mark Weiner wanted to do a good deed by giving a young woman who was walking alone at night a ride home. Unfortunately for Weiner, that young woman was looking to get sympathy from a man she was dating. So as Weiner drove her home, the woman, Chelsea Steiniger, texted her boyfriend, Michael...
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    Montana Dumps Mooch’s School Lunch Program

    Tell me again. Who elected Michelle to do anything ? A school district in Bozeman, Montana has decided to cancel its participation in the federal school lunch program ruled by First Lady Michelle Obama. Because of this decision the district is being punished by losing about $117,000 in...
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    Man films fatal crash on cellphone instead of helping victims

    An Ohio man who allegedly recorded the harrowing moments of a fatal crash on his cellphone instead of helping the victims, calling them idiots, has been charged. Paul Pelton, 41, was charged with vehicular trespass after he opened a back door and leaned into the vehicle to capture video on...
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    Giant squid checks out a ship

    couple of years old but new to moi:
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    Ontario in talks to buy power from Newfoundland

    Ontario is the latest customer to line up to purchase Newfoundland and Labrador’s growing supply of hydroelectricity in a move that could one day lead to a “national grid.” The two provincial energy ministers will announce Monday they’re launching a study of the potential for Ontario to buy...
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    Canada's federal finances in good shape, provinces not: Watchdog

    probably not in the star and such tho'. Report issued by office of Parliamentary Budget Officer OTTAWA - Canada's federal finances are in a solid long-term position but the provincial and municipal government picture is far less rosy, the country's parliamentary budget watchdog said on...
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    Trudeau says NDP must explain why it disagrees with Supreme Court on Quebec

    Stephen Taylor ‏@stephen_taylor Senior Liberals in my news feed all started to share this article. The NDP needs to better explain why it thinks Quebec should have an easier path to independence than the one...
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    Ontario is now the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower

    thanks mr wynne Ontario, the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower, is ploughing ahead with Canada’s most ambitious infrastructure plan — risking the censure of Standard & Poor’s and underperformance for its $307 billion of bonds. The nation’s most-populous province is keeping a...
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    Mulcair Is Putting Canada At Risk By Pandering to Separatists

    A few weeks ago I attended Canada Day festivities in Mississauga and celebrated as so many do with family and friends. Looking around at the flag-waving crowd drawn from every background, I felt full of pride and remarked to my wife just how lucky we are to live in this place and time. Yet...
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    Lies, Damned Lies & The BLS Inflation Statistics

    The government released their monthly CPI report this week. Even though it came in at an annualized rate of 3.6%, they and their mouthpieces in the corporate mainstream media dutifully downplayed the uptrend. They can’t let the plebs know the truth. That might upend their economic recovery...
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    Man Who Filmed Ford Crack Video Pleads Guilty To Drugs And Gun Trafficking

    Mohamed Siad, the man who captured the now infamous video of then Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine has pleaded guilty to trafficking guns and cocaine. The 29 year old has been in custody since being placed under arrest in June 2013 following Project Traveler Raids. He has admitted to...
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    Jane Fonda's oil sands protest hypocrisy

    Kinda like the shiny pony...not against (OPEC) oil, just against Canadian oil. anyway, OPEC. duh, what? where? wonder if (and by whom) she was paid to be there. Lol. relatedness: M...
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    Liberals Sign Petition to Support “White Privilege Tax”

    As Barack Obama unveiled a new program to collect data on Americans by race in order to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites, Americans signed a petition to impose a “white privilege tax” on all Caucasians. Published on Jul 20, 2015 In a shocking experiment, media...
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    Pipeline transportation of crude oil and refined petroleum products, May 2015

    Canadian pipelines net receipts of crude oil and condensates, and other liquefied petroleum products edged up 0.5% from the same month a year earlier to 31.7 million cubic metres in May. Receipts from refineries and bulk plants rose 8.2% to 4.8 million cubic metres. There were also higher...
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    Parental payout 'historic,' Harper tells MPs

    OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told his MPs that Monday will be an “historic day,” the day when his government makes a payout to parents worth a combined $3 billion. In a two-page letter marked “confidential” provided exclusively to Sun Media and sent to his 159 MPs Sunday...
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    Because no Christian will fire-bomb or storm the offices of the CBC

    or Christians are tolerant and have a sense of humor or something, but you get the point. cbc is a partisan hack organization plain and simple. Refused to show Muhammad cartoons, CBC posts photos mocking Jesus being PM Harper During the height of the Charlie Hebdo news coverage, the CBC...
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    Awkward...

    Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company's user databases, financial records and other proprietary information...
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    The Sound Of Secret Science

    via sda The Environmental Protection Agency for years has issued costly clean air rules based, in part, on two '90s-era studies linking air pollution with death. But, critics say, the same agency has stymied efforts to access the data behind them. The transparency concerns have...